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DOWN THE TANNOCH ROAD. Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Perlman): AA'BB (Hunter). A mid-20th century composition by fiddler Adie Harper of the Wick Scottish Dance Band. Four miles out of Wick lies the district of Tannoch, where Adie went to school. Perlman (1996) notes that Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster introduced the tune to Cape Breton and PEI fiddlers.

Source for notated version: Paul MacDonald (b. 1974, Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].

Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 291. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 133.

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